What’s Aged the Worst?
The body-shaming blind-date scene (tentative pick); analog phones, beepers and star 69; Felicia asking to use the VCR to dub a tape; the Mexican-accent jokes in the angel dust flashback; how thin the bags of weed look
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- Obvious analog touches: phones, beepers, Craig's mom knowing who called because she hit star 69, which one host has to confirm the others understand; the giant boom box is judged to have aged pretty well; Felicia asking to use the VCR to dub a tape got a laugh on a rewatch.
- The one mean-spirited scene is the worst thing: Debbie sets Smokey up with a friend who says she looks like Janet Jackson, and when she arrives heavier than expected Smokey pulls her hair out and insults her appearance to her face, which the film did not need.
- The Mexican accents in the angel dust scene are called unnecessary, easy, low-hanging jokes that cut against a movie about complicating how people in the hood are depicted.
- How thin the weed looks has aged badly: when Smokey sells to Hector and his friend in the car, the twenty-sacks look like thimbles or empty plastic bags.
- The body-shaming scene is tentatively the worst-aged choice; the Janet Jackson, Freddie Jackson line is still funny to one host but gave pause in 2017, and the joke does not scan because the woman is not unattractive; the hosts then promise research, heat check, Apex Mountain and Who Won after the break.